Weill Cornell Medical College at a Glance

Weill Cornell Medical College has 1781 full-time faculty (3582 total faculty) distributed across 8 basic science and 15 clinical departments.
Total research support is in excess of $148 million, of which $123 million represents federal government and non-federal government sponsored research grants, training grants, and fellowships.
Weill Cornell Medical College has 232,000 ft2 of research laboratory space. Over the past decade major portions of the research space have undergone renovation coincident with the recruitment of new Chairs in nearly all the basic science departments and in many clinical departments. These renovations have provided many of the Weill Cornell research programs with modern, state-of-the-art laboratories.
The Research Animal Resource Center (RARC) provides facilities, services, and information to facilitate effective research using laboratory animals. RARC currently serves 168 Principal Investigators with 321 active projects.
Among the many information resources available to the Weill Cornell community is the Samuel J. Wood Library and the C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center, centrally located at 1300 York Avenue. This modern library houses over 151,160 volumes and subscribes to 1,424 journals. Especially noteworthy is the fact that the library is one of the country's first fully automated medical libraries, featuring computer terminals that provide access to its collections from any of several hundred networked desktop computers and student workstations throughout NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center. In addition, the Nathan Cummings Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has joined with the libraries of Weill Cornell Medical College, The Hospital for Special Surgery and The Rockefeller University to share databases. The library also offers a variety of services, including computer-generated literature searches, translations, and inter-library loans. Medical graphics and photographic/audiovisual facilities provide a wide range of art, photographic, and audio-visual services.
Weill Cornell Medical College operates and supports several centralized Research Core Facilities, directed by MD and/or PhD scientists and staffed by experienced technical personnel, which provide the scientific and technical infrastructure in support of WMC translational and basic science research programs. The Research Core Facilities include:
1. Clinical Research Methodology;
2. Computational Genomics;
3. DNA Sequencing;
4. Electron Microscopy;
5. Genetically Engineered Mouse Phenotyping;
6. Mass Spectrometry;
7. Gene Microarray;
8. Molecular Modeling;
9. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance;
10. Optical Microscopy;
11. Transgenic Mouse; and
12. X-ray Crystallography.